Digest of the Non Linear Science Network, Volume 10, Number 16 September 1, 2010 Editor: Angel Jorba Topics: PhD studentship on Nonlinear and Complex Systems PhD position on Analysis of Dislocation Models Reader/Lecturer in Applied Mathematics at Durham University, UK Contents, Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series B 14:4 Contents, Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena 239:19 Contents, Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena 239:20 Contents, Nonlinearity 23:10 Contents, Communications in Mathematical Sciences 8:4 Submissions to nls-net must be addressed to: Comments and suggestions are also welcome. General information about nls-net can be found at: http://www.maia.ub.es/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nls-net/ This is a service created and maintained in collaboration with the American Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) http://www.aimsciences.org/ ------ Subject: PhD studentship on Nonlinear and Complex Systems From: "Andrew Osbaldestin" Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 17:14:22 +0100 An advert has just come out for a PhD studentship in of Nonlinear and Complex Systems. See http://www.findaphd.com/search/showproject.asp?projectid=29501 Please pass this on to any colleagues at other institutions who may know of any likely applicants. ------ Subject: PhD position on Analysis of Dislocation Models From: "Muntean, A." Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2010 12:12:32 +0200 A PhD position in "Analysis of dislocation models-a generalized gradient flow approach" is open at CASA, the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, TU Eindhoven. The deadline for applications is November 12, 2010. The application will stay open beyond November 12 until the suitable candidate is found. Details about this position can be found at http://www.academictransfer.com/employer/TUE/vacancy/5906/lang/en/ or via email at (Dr. Adrian Muntean). ------ Subject: Reader/Lecturer in Applied Mathematics at Durham University, UK From: "James Blowey" Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 21:55:45 +0100 (BST) Durham University, UK Department of Mathematical Sciences Reader/Lecturer in Applied Mathematics Salary: 29853 GBP - 52347 GBP Expiry date: Monday, 4th October 2010 The successful candidate will have an excellent research record in an area of Applied Mathematics other than theoretical particle physics or general relativity. Preference may be given to candidates with research interests which mesh with existing ones in the department: continuum mechanics, computational applied mathematics, partial differential equations, mathematical biology/medicine, applied dynamical systems. He or she will be expected to undertake and publish original research of the highest level, to contribute to the research activities of the Applied Mathematics research unit and of the department as a whole, and to undertake teaching and administrative duties as assigned by the Head of Department of Mathematical Sciences. For appointment as Reader candidates must have a substantial record of excellent publications at internationally leading level, experience with postgraduate supervision, and ideally substantial teaching experience at University level. A record of successful generation of external funding for research projects is highly desirable. We would especially welcome applications from holders of research fellowships. For the job description and further particulars see www.jobs.ac.uk/job/ABN550/reader-lecturer-in-applied-mathematics/ For informal enquiries contact Professor Brian Straughan ------ Subject: Contents, Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series B 14:4 From: "Liwei Ning" Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 11:21:45 -0500 Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems Series B (DCDS-B) Volume: 14, Number: 4 November 2010 http://aimsciences.org/journals/displayPapers1.jsp?pubID=384 We offer a couple of weeks free online access to the full paper of DCDS-B 14-4, A special issue Dedicated to David L. Russell on the occasion of his 70th birthday. Goong Chen, Pengfei Yao, Jiongmin Yong, Bingyu Zhang and Xu Zhang Foreword; pages{i--i} doi:10.3934/dcdsb.2010.14.4i Goong Chen David L. Russell and a survey of his mathematical work; pages{1265--1277} doi:10.3934/dcdsb.2010.14.1265 Aaron A. Allen and Scott W. Hansen Analyticity and optimal damping for a multilayer Mead-Markus sandwich beam; pages{1279--1292} doi:10.3934/dcdsb.2010.14.1279 Piermarco Cannarsa and Alexander Khapalov Multiplicative controllability for reaction-diffusion equations with target states admitting finitely many changes of sign pages{1293--1311} doi:10.3934/dcdsb.2010.14.1293 Jeongwhan Choi, Tao Lin, Shu-Ming Sun and Sungim Whang Supercritical surface waves generated by negative or oscillatory forcing; pages{1313--1335} doi:10.3934/dcdsb.2010.14.1313 Jean-Michel Coron, Matthias Kawski and Zhiqiang Wang Analysis of a conservation law modeling a highly re-entrant manufacturing system; pages{1337--1359} doi:10.3934/dcdsb.2010.14.1337 Tyrone E. Duncan Some topics in stochastic control; pages{1361--1373} doi:10.3934/dcdsb.2010.14.1361 Sylvain Ervedoza and Enrique Zuazua A systematic method for building smooth controls for smooth data; pages{1375--1401} doi:10.3934/dcdsb.2010.14.1375 Hoi Tin Kong and Qing Zhang An optimal trading rule of a mean-reverting asset; pages{1403--1417} doi:10.3934/dcdsb.2010.14.1403 Tatsien Li (Daqian Li) Global exact boundary controllability for first order quasilinear hyperbolic systems; pages{1419--1432} doi:10.3934/dcdsb.2010.14.1419 Zhuangyi Liu and Ramon Quintanilla Energy decay rate of a mixed type II and type III thermoelastic system; pages{1433--1444} doi:10.3934/dcdsb.2010.14.1433 Hongwei Lou Second-order necessary/sufficient conditions for optimal control problems in the absence of linear structure; pages{1445--1464} doi:10.3934/dcdsb.2010.14.1445 Luc Miller A direct Lebeau-Robbiano strategy for the observability of heat-like semigroups; pages{1465--1485} doi:10.3934/dcdsb.2010.14.1465 Luciano Pandolfi Riesz systems and moment method in the study of viscoelasticity in one space dimension; pages{1487--1510} doi:10.3934/dcdsb.2010.14.1487 Ademir F. Pazoto and Lionel Rosier Uniform stabilization in weighted Sobolev spaces for the KdV equation posed on the half-line; pages{1511--1535} doi:10.3934/dcdsb.2010.14.1511 Jean-Pierre Raymond Stokes and Navier-Stokes equations with a nonhomogeneous divergence condition; pages{1537--1564} doi:10.3934/dcdsb.2010.14.1537 Yufeng Shi and Qingfeng Zhu A Kneser-type theorem for backward doubly stochastic differential equations; pages{1565--1579} doi:10.3934/dcdsb.2010.14.1565 Shanjian Tang A second-order maximum principle for singular optimal stochastic controls; pages{1581--1599} doi:10.3934/dcdsb.2010.14.1581 Louis Tebou Stabilization of some coupled hyperbolic/parabolic equations; pages{1601--1620} doi:10.3934/dcdsb.2010.14.1601 Gengsheng Wang and Guojie Zheng The optimal control to restore the periodic property of a linear evolution system with small perturbation; pages{1621--1639} doi:10.3934/dcdsb.2010.14.1621 Lijuan Wang and Jun Zou Error estimates of finite element methods for parameter identifications in elliptic and parabolic systems; pages{1641--1670} doi:10.3934/dcdsb.2010.14.1641 Yuncheng You Dynamics of three-component reversible Gray-Scott model; pages{1671--1688} doi:10.3934/dcdsb.2010.14.1671 ------ Subject: Contents, Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena 239:19 From: ScienceDirect Message Center Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 04:32:08 -0400 * Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena Volume 239, Issue 19, Pages 1843-1928 (1 October 2010) http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/issue/5537-2010-997609980-2275738 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1) Editorial Board Page IFC 2) Mixed-mode solutions in an air-filled differentially heated rotating annulus Pages 1843-1854 Gregory M. Lewis 3) A sharp-interface interpretation of a continuous density model for homogenization of gravity-driven flow in porous media Pages 1855-1866 Daniel M. Anderson, Richard M. McLaughlin, Cass T. Miller 4) Defect-mediated snaking: A new growth mechanism for localized structures Pages 1867-1883 Y.-P. Ma, J. Burke, E. Knobloch 5) Dynamics near the p:-q resonance Pages 1884-1891 Sven Schmidt, Holger R. Dullin 6) On the stability of periodic solutions of the generalized Benjamin-Bona-Mahony equation Pages 1892-1908 Mathew A. Johnson 7) Synchronization induced by periodic inputs in finite NN-unit bistable Langevin models: The augmented moment method Pages 1909-1921 Hideo Hasegawa 8) Epidemics and chaotic synchronization in recombining monogamous populations Pages 1922-1928 Federico Vazquez, Damian H. Zanette ------ Subject: Contents, Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena 239:20 From: ScienceDirect Message Center Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 20:04:22 -0400 * Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena Volume 239, Issue 20, Pages 1929-2024 (15 October 2010) http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/issue/5537-2010-997609979-2297738 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1) Editorial Board Page IFC 2) Reduction theory for symmetry breaking with applications to nematic systems Pages 1929-1947 Francois Gay-Balmaz, Cesare Tronci 3) Lagrangian evolution of velocity increments in rotating turbulence: The effects of rotation on non-Gaussian statistics Pages 1948-1957 Yi Li 4) Filtering and frequency interpretations of Singular Spectrum Analysis Pages 1958-1967 T.J. Harris, Hui Yuan 5) Singular standing-ring solutions of nonlinear partial differential equations Pages 1968-1983 Guy Baruch, Gadi Fibich, Nir Gavish 6) A geometric approach to bistable front propagation in scalar reaction-diffusion equations with cut-off Pages 1984-1999 Freddy Dumortier, Nikola Popovic, Tasso J. Kaper 7) Pulse dynamics in low-Reynolds-number interfacial hydrodynamics: Experiments and theory Pages 2000-2010 D. Tseluiko, S. Saprykin, C. Duprat, F. Giorgiutti-Dauphine, S. Kalliadasis 8) Stability and bifurcation analysis in hematopoietic stem cell dynamics with multiple delays Pages 2011-2024 Ying Qu, Junjie Wei, Shigui Ruan ------ Subject: Contents, Nonlinearity 23:10 From: Emma Avery Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2010 14:25:11 +0100 NONLINEARITY Volume 23, Issue 10, October 2010 Individual articles are free for 30 days following their publication on the web. This issue is available at: URL: http://iopscience.iop.org/0951-7715/23/10 Pages: 2351--2722 PAPERS 2351 Periodic homogenization of G-equations and viscosity effects Yu-Yu Liu, Jack Xin and Yifeng Yu 2369 Exponential stabilization and synchronization of neural networks with time-varying delays via periodically intermittent control Cheng Hu, Juan Yu, Haijun Jiang and Zhidong Teng 2393 On the Hausdorff dimension of the set of closed orbits for a cylindrical transformation K Fr\c{a}czek and M Lema\'{n}czyk 2423 On some non-conformal fractals Micha{\l} Rams 2429 The entropy of ${\alpha}$-continued fractions: numerical results Carlo Carminati, Stefano Marmi, Alessandro Profeti and Giulio Tiozzo 2457 Positive travelling fronts for reaction--diffusion systems with distributed delay Teresa Faria and Sergei Trofimchuk 2483 Initial boundary value problems for integrable systems: towards the long time asymptotics Anne Boutet de Monvel, Vladimir P Kotlyarov, Dmitry Shepelsky and Chunxiong Zheng 2501 Poles of int\'egrale tritronqu\'ee and anharmonic oscillators. Asymptotic localization from WKB analysis Davide Masoero 2509 Lipschitz shadowing implies structural stability Sergei Yu Pilyugin and Sergey Tikhomirov 2517 The non-polynomial conservation laws and integrability analysis of generalized Riemann type hydrodynamical equations Ziemowit Popowicz and Anatoliy K Prykarpatsky 2539 Parametric normal forms of vector fields and their further simplification Bo Gao and Weinian Zhang 2559 Inverse scattering transform for the Degasperis--Procesi equation Adrian Constantin, Rossen I Ivanov and Jonatan Lenells 2577 Classification of integrable Weingarten surfaces possessing an ${\mathfrak {sl}}$(2)-valued zero curvature representation Hynek Baran and Michal Marvan 2599 Roots of the derivative of the Riemann-zeta function and of characteristic polynomials Eduardo Due\~nez, David W Farmer, Sara Froehlich, C P Hughes, Francesco Mezzadri and Toan Phan 2623 Stationary solutions to a thermoelastic system on shape memory materials Takashi Suzuki and Souhei Tasaki 2657 Pattern solutions of the Klausmeier Model for banded vegetation in semi-arid environments I Jonathan A Sherratt 2677 Approach to a rational rotation number in a piecewise isometric system J H Lowenstein and F Vivaldi ------ Subject: Contents, Communications in Mathematical Sciences 8:4 From: Communications in Math Sciences Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 14:31:03 -0500 Communications in Mathematical Sciences (CMS) Vol 8, No. 4, 2010 Table of Contents full articles are online at http://projecteuclid.org/DPubS?service=UI&version=1.0&verb=Display&handle=euclid.cms or www.intlpress.com/CMS * Coarsening in high order, discrete, ill-posed diffusion equations Catherine Kublik * Some decay estimates of solutions for the 3-D compressible isentropic magnetohydrodynamics Jianwen Zhang and Junning Zhao * A finite time result for vanishing viscosity in the plane with nondecaying vorticity Elaine Cozzi * Heterogeneous multiscale finite element method with novel numerical integration schemes Rui Du and Pingbing Ming * Tailored finite point method for steady-state reaction-diffusion equations Houde Han and Zhongyi Huang * On the energy conservation by weak solutions of the relativistic Vlasov-Maxwell system Reinel Sospedra-Alfonso * A level set approach to modeling general service rules in supply chains Christian Ringhofer * A strategy for non-strictly convex transport costs and the example of |x-y|_p in R^2 Guillaume Carlier, Luigi De Pascale, and Filippo Santambrogio * Small amplitude oscillatory shear permeation flow of cholesteric liquid crystal polymers Zhenlu Cui * Boundary layers in incompressible Navier-Stokes equations with Navier boundary conditions for the vanishing viscosity limit Xiao-Ping Wang, Ya-Guang Wang, and Zhouping Xin * Strong convergence of principle of averaging for multiscale stochastic dynamical systems Di Liu * Global existence and finite dimensional global attractor for a 3D double viscous MHD-alpha model Davide Catania and Paolo Secchi * Gaussian beam approach for the boundary value problem of high frequency Helmholtz equation Chunxiong Zheng * Periodic homogenization of the inviscid G-equation for incompressible flows Jack Xin and Yifeng Yu * On the Chang and Cooper scheme applied to a linear Fokker-Planck equation Christophe Buet and Stephane Dellacherie